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Re:Botswana Successfully Launches First Satellite, Botsat-1 by dyauspitr on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:29PM (#43488194)
Politically stable, relatively low corruption and economical acceptable. They are doing many things well relative to the rest of Africa. On the other hand, 30% of their women have HIV.
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Re:Botswana Successfully Launches First Satellite, Botsat-1 by anon291 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:03PM (#43488482)
It is very difficult to change mass culture.
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Re:Botswana Successfully Launches First Satellite, Botsat-1 by throwaway2037 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:02AM (#43491329)
With the current generation of HIV drugs, most of those women should live into their 60s (at least). Also, the latest generation can get HIV virus counts to below testable densities. I expect their HIV issues to be resolved over the next 30-50 years, where the number of new cases will fall dramatically, and almost no one will die from AIDS-related causes.
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Re:Botswana Successfully Launches First Satellite, Botsat-1 by dyauspitr on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:58PM (#43495547)
With adherence to the drug regimen the current prognosis is even better than that at 75 years of life expectancy. The problem is adherence to the regimen is hard and lack of adherence means you’re a potential spreader again. That being said I believe Botswana has 90%+ of its hiv positive population on ART drugs.
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